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* help: howto aggregate several properties in one column
@ 2024-08-10 12:13 Pedro
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Pedro @ 2024-08-10 12:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


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Hi,

I am a heavy user of propview [1] and I am very happy with it, but looks 
like now I reached a limitation, or maybe someone founds a magical 
workaround. I am open to use another solution outside of propview.

Find attached in file aggregate-props.org that serves as a playground 
environment and as an example of what I am struggling with, it is posed 
as a generic example: I want to "merge" two properties into one, no 
matter if the property exists or no. I am trying to use concat, concat 
works only when the properties on an item exist, if one of them does not 
exist, fails, which is unfortunate to what I am trying to achieve, 
because on one side, I would like to report (with a propview table) the 
frequency of appearance of each test_a, test_b, test_c, etc. on all 
nodes with tag :test:, and with another propview table, a summary of all 
test properties.

There is a workaround based on a precalculation strategy that I kind of 
hate: do an org-map-entries of all targeted items with tag "test", and 
update SUMMARY property through an adhoc elisp function all the 
properties related to test (I am happy with just enumerating all of the 
involved subproperties, but I recognize, having a regex on property such 
as test_* or that "starts with" test, would be amazing), then, it is 
just as easy as adding the new column SUMMARY, but I would like to avoid 
this solution

Extra note: related to propview, it is not a problem to concat 100 
elements, because you can do it in an extra shortnamed function, so the 
column name can be short

So this is what happens, concat of TEST_A and TEST_B is 0

#+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
| ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
| mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 
|                      0 | cd                     |
| mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b 
|                      0 | cd                     |
| mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 
|                      0 | 0                      |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
|         |                        |        | |                        
|                        |
#+END:

What I would expect to happen is that in the concat result of TEST_A and 
TEST_B would appear a or b, maybe that could be done with another function?

#+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
| ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
| mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 
|                      a | cd                     |
| mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b 
|                      b | cd                     |
| mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 
|                      0 | 0                      |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
|         |                        |        | |                        
|                        |
#+END:

Cheers,
pedeb

[1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html

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* my test
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-10 Sat 13:48]
:END:

#+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
| ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A TEST_B) | (or TEST_A TEST_B) | (or TEST_B TEST_A) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+------------------------|
| mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 |                      0 |                  a |                  0 | cd                     |
| mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b |                      0 |                  0 |                  b | cd                     |
| mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 |                      0 |                  0 |                  0 | 0                      |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+------------------------|
|         |                        |        |        |                        |                    |                    |                        |
#+END:

** mytest                                                                      :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_157
:test_a:    a
:test_c:    c
:test_d:    d
:END:

** mytest2                                                                     :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_158
:test_b:    b
:test_c:    c
:test_d:    d
:END:

** mytest3                                                                     :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_158
:test_c:    c
:END:

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* help: howto aggregate several properties in one column
@ 2024-08-11  8:49 Pedro
  2024-08-11 20:27 ` tbanelwebmin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Pedro @ 2024-08-11  8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


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Hi,

I am a heavy user of propview [1] and I am very happy with it, but looks 
like now I reached a limitation, or maybe someone founds a magical 
workaround. I am open to use another solution outside of propview.

Find attached in file aggregate-props.org that serves as a playground 
environment and as an example of what I am struggling with, it is posed 
as a generic example: I want to "merge" two properties into one, no 
matter if the property exists or no. I am trying to use concat, concat 
works only when the properties on an item exist, if one of them does not 
exist, fails, which is unfortunate to what I am trying to achieve, 
because on one side, I would like to report (with a propview table) the 
frequency of appearance of each test_a, test_b, test_c, etc. on all 
nodes with tag :test:, and with another propview table, a summary of all 
test properties.

There is a workaround based on a precalculation strategy that I kind of 
hate: do an org-map-entries of all targeted items with tag "test", and 
update SUMMARY property through an adhoc elisp function all the 
properties related to test (I am happy with just enumerating all of the 
involved subproperties, but I recognize, having a regex on property such 
as test_* or that "starts with" test, would be amazing), then, it is 
just as easy as adding the new column SUMMARY, but I would like to avoid 
this solution

Extra note: related to propview, it is not a problem to concat 100 
elements, because you can do it in an extra shortnamed function, so the 
column name can be short

So this is what happens, concat of TEST_A and TEST_B is 0

#+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
| ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
| mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 
|                      0 | cd                     |
| mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b 
|                      0 | cd                     |
| mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 
|                      0 | 0                      |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
|         |                        |        | |                        
|                        |
#+END:

What I would expect to happen is that in the concat result of TEST_A and 
TEST_B would appear a or b, maybe that could be done with another function?

#+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
| ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
| mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 
|                      a | cd                     |
| mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b 
|                      b | cd                     |
| mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 
|                      0 | 0                      |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
|         |                        |        | |                        
|                        |
#+END:

Cheers,
pedeb

[1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html


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* my test
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-10 Sat 13:48]
:END:

#+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
| ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A TEST_B) | (or TEST_A TEST_B) | (or TEST_B TEST_A) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+------------------------|
| mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 |                      0 |                  a |                  0 | cd                     |
| mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b |                      0 |                  0 |                  b | cd                     |
| mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 |                      0 |                  0 |                  0 | 0                      |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+------------------------|
|         |                        |        |        |                        |                    |                    |                        |
#+END:

** mytest                                                                      :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_157
:test_a:    a
:test_c:    c
:test_d:    d
:END:

** mytest2                                                                     :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_158
:test_b:    b
:test_c:    c
:test_d:    d
:END:

** mytest3                                                                     :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_158
:test_c:    c
:END:

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* Re: help: howto aggregate several properties in one column
  2024-08-11  8:49 help: howto aggregate several properties in one column Pedro
@ 2024-08-11 20:27 ` tbanelwebmin
  2024-08-12  8:46   ` Pedro
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: tbanelwebmin @ 2024-08-11 20:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Two quick-and-dirty workarounds:

1. Eval that prior to using propview:

(setq
  TEST_A "<>"
  TEST_B "<>"
  TEST_C "<>"
  TEST_D "<>")

2. Define this helper macro:

(defmacro valof (symbol)
   `(if (boundp ',symbol)
       ,symbol
     "()"))

Then specify columns like that:

(concat (valof TEST_A) (valof TEST_B))


Have fun
Thierry


On 24-08-11 10:49, Pedro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a heavy user of propview [1] and I am very happy with it, but 
> looks like now I reached a limitation, or maybe someone founds a 
> magical workaround. I am open to use another solution outside of 
> propview.
>
> Find attached in file aggregate-props.org that serves as a playground 
> environment and as an example of what I am struggling with, it is 
> posed as a generic example: I want to "merge" two properties into one, 
> no matter if the property exists or no. I am trying to use concat, 
> concat works only when the properties on an item exist, if one of them 
> does not exist, fails, which is unfortunate to what I am trying to 
> achieve, because on one side, I would like to report (with a propview 
> table) the frequency of appearance of each test_a, test_b, test_c, 
> etc. on all nodes with tag :test:, and with another propview table, a 
> summary of all test properties.
>
> There is a workaround based on a precalculation strategy that I kind 
> of hate: do an org-map-entries of all targeted items with tag "test", 
> and update SUMMARY property through an adhoc elisp function all the 
> properties related to test (I am happy with just enumerating all of 
> the involved subproperties, but I recognize, having a regex on 
> property such as test_* or that "starts with" test, would be amazing), 
> then, it is just as easy as adding the new column SUMMARY, but I would 
> like to avoid this solution
>
> Extra note: related to propview, it is not a problem to concat 100 
> elements, because you can do it in an extra shortnamed function, so 
> the column name can be short
>
> So this is what happens, concat of TEST_A and TEST_B is 0
>
> #+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
> CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
> | ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
> TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
> |---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------| 
>
> | mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 
> |                      0 | cd                     |
> | mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b 
> |                      0 | cd                     |
> | mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 
> |                      0 | 0                      |
> |---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------| 
>
> |         |                        |        | |                        
> |                        |
> #+END:
>
> What I would expect to happen is that in the concat result of TEST_A 
> and TEST_B would appear a or b, maybe that could be done with another 
> function?
>
> #+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
> CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
> | ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
> TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
> |---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------| 
>
> | mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 
> |                      a | cd                     |
> | mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b 
> |                      b | cd                     |
> | mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 
> |                      0 | 0                      |
> |---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------| 
>
> |         |                        |        | |                        
> |                        |
> #+END:
>
> Cheers,
> pedeb
>
> [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html
>



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* Re: help: howto aggregate several properties in one column
  2024-08-11 20:27 ` tbanelwebmin
@ 2024-08-12  8:46   ` Pedro
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Pedro @ 2024-08-12  8:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


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Thank you Thierry!

Even better, just initializing it the empty properties with an empty 
string works great and then I don't need the valof macro.

I updated the aggregate-props.org file and find it attached

Here is the result I am getting with just ~(progn(setq TEST_A "") (setq 
TEST_B ""))~

#+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
| ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
| mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] | a      |        | 
a                      | cd                     |
| mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |        | b      | 
b                      | cd                     |
| mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |        | |                        | 
0                      |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
|         |                        |        | |                        
|                        |
#+END:

Oooh, I am so happy, thank you again!

Cheers,
Pedro

On 2024-08-11 22:27, tbanelwebmin wrote:
> Two quick-and-dirty workarounds:
>
> 1. Eval that prior to using propview:
>
> (setq
>  TEST_A "<>"
>  TEST_B "<>"
>  TEST_C "<>"
>  TEST_D "<>")
>
> 2. Define this helper macro:
>
> (defmacro valof (symbol)
>   `(if (boundp ',symbol)
>       ,symbol
>     "()"))
>
> Then specify columns like that:
>
> (concat (valof TEST_A) (valof TEST_B))
>
>
> Have fun
> Thierry
>
>
> On 24-08-11 10:49, Pedro wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a heavy user of propview [1] and I am very happy with it, but 
>> looks like now I reached a limitation, or maybe someone founds a 
>> magical workaround. I am open to use another solution outside of 
>> propview.
>>
>> Find attached in file aggregate-props.org that serves as a playground 
>> environment and as an example of what I am struggling with, it is 
>> posed as a generic example: I want to "merge" two properties into 
>> one, no matter if the property exists or no. I am trying to use 
>> concat, concat works only when the properties on an item exist, if 
>> one of them does not exist, fails, which is unfortunate to what I am 
>> trying to achieve, because on one side, I would like to report (with 
>> a propview table) the frequency of appearance of each test_a, test_b, 
>> test_c, etc. on all nodes with tag :test:, and with another propview 
>> table, a summary of all test properties.
>>
>> There is a workaround based on a precalculation strategy that I kind 
>> of hate: do an org-map-entries of all targeted items with tag "test", 
>> and update SUMMARY property through an adhoc elisp function all the 
>> properties related to test (I am happy with just enumerating all of 
>> the involved subproperties, but I recognize, having a regex on 
>> property such as test_* or that "starts with" test, would be 
>> amazing), then, it is just as easy as adding the new column SUMMARY, 
>> but I would like to avoid this solution
>>
>> Extra note: related to propview, it is not a problem to concat 100 
>> elements, because you can do it in an extra shortnamed function, so 
>> the column name can be short
>>
>> So this is what happens, concat of TEST_A and TEST_B is 0
>>
>> #+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
>> CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
>> | ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
>> TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
>> |---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------| 
>>
>> | mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 
>> |                      0 | cd                     |
>> | mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b 
>> |                      0 | cd                     |
>> | mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 
>> |                      0 | 0                      |
>> |---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------| 
>>
>> |         |                        |        | 
>> |                        |                        |
>> #+END:
>>
>> What I would expect to happen is that in the concat result of TEST_A 
>> and TEST_B would appear a or b, maybe that could be done with another 
>> function?
>>
>> #+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM 
>> CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
>> | ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A 
>> TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
>> |---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------| 
>>
>> | mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      a |      0 
>> |                      a | cd                     |
>> | mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      b 
>> |                      b | cd                     |
>> | mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |      0 |      0 
>> |                      0 | 0                      |
>> |---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------| 
>>
>> |         |                        |        | 
>> |                        |                        |
>> #+END:
>>
>> Cheers,
>> pedeb
>>
>> [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html
>>
>
>


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* my test
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-10 Sat 13:48]
:END:

#+name: sourceblock_created_2024-08-12_10-36-52
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
;; eval this before executing propview
;;   so that aggregating columns with concat works
(setq TEST_A "")
(setq TEST_B "")
#+end_src

#+RESULTS: sourceblock_created_2024-08-12_10-36-52

#+BEGIN: propview :scope tree :match "+test" :noquote all :cols (ITEM CREATED TEST_A TEST_B (concat TEST_A TEST_B) (concat TEST_C TEST_D))
| ITEM    | CREATED                | TEST_A | TEST_B | (concat TEST_A TEST_B) | (concat TEST_C TEST_D) |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
| mytest  | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] | a      |        | a                      | cd                     |
| mytest2 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |        | b      | b                      | cd                     |
| mytest3 | [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53] |        |        |                        | 0                      |
|---------+------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+------------------------|
|         |                        |        |        |                        |                        |
#+END:

** mytest                                                                      :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_157
:test_a:    a
:test_c:    c
:test_d:    d
:END:

** mytest2                                                                     :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_158
:test_b:    b
:test_c:    c
:test_d:    d
:END:

** mytest3                                                                     :test:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2024-08-09 Fri 23:53]
:CUSTOM_ID: board_158
:test_c:    c
:END:

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